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Please Don't Tell My Mother

from Nothin to Write Home About by Sam Steffen

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O please inform my dearest mother
Of my death, when I am gone
Please break it to her soft and gently
Tell her that I suffered none

O tell her that I’s aboard a freighter
Upon Superior, bound from Duluth
O tell her that our ship was sunken
But O please spare her the awful truth

Or tell her that I’s in an aircraft
And that our plane fell from the sky
And if she asks to know what happened
Please see to it that you lie

Please don’t let on I was in trouble
Or that I stole more than a dime
For if she knew how I was living
The shame would kill me a second time

Please don’t let on I was unhappy
I often wrote her to say I’s well
There are some things one can’t help hiding
There are some things one should not tell

Please don’t let on I lost my partment
After my girlfriend threw me out
And as for the job I could not manage
You need not say one thing about

Please understand my mother’s lonely
There’s none to keep her company
She had no one to put her faith in
Her hopes and dreams were all on me

Now I have met three kinds of angels:
And two of them were heavenly
But twas the angel they call heroine
That stole my little life from me

O please inform my dearest mother
Of my death when I am gone
Please break it to her soft and gently
Tell her that I suffered none

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from Nothin to Write Home About, released June 13, 2020

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Sam Steffen Boise, Idaho

Sam Steffen is a Pennsylvania-bred, Boise-based singer-songwriter whose songs are the torch-wood for a new generation of folk music that has learned from the best stuff in the tradition and aims in spite of everything to keep the human spirit alive and kicking. A versatile musician and skilled finger-picker, Sam is at heart a story-teller, and a prolific one. ... more

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